By Charles Sercombe Move over Detroit. You had your moment in the national spotlight. Now, it’s Hamtramck’s turn to wow the television viewing audience of the NFL Super Bowl that’s coming up this Feb. 5. Last year, Detroit got a huge amount of love from football fans after playing a major role in the introduction [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine Hamtramck, your mayor is a mover and a shaker. And we’re not talking just Hungarian Folk Dance. (She’s got a talent for that, you know!) As previously reported in this paper three weeks ago, the mayor is the newly named president of the Michigan Municipal League (or MML), having naturally moved [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe Last week we stopped about midway through the Oct. 25 City Council meeting, in which only Councilmember Kazi Miah was absent. Let’s pick up where we left off. Or maybe not. Where we left [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe The City Council met on Oct. 26 with only Councilmember Kazi Miah absent. The meeting ran for over two hours. Do we want the highlights now or later? Oh, let’s get to the “good [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine They rolled out the barrel — of Polish food. Then, they had a barrel of fun. This past Saturday night, Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church held a Polish dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. in the basement of the church, located on Pulaski at Fleming. By 6 p.m., the place [...]
“Hall of Shame” presents some of the worst cases of blight in the city in the hopes that someone from City Hall will take note. Well, one can only hope. By Charles Sercombe Recently, we talked about one of those strange moments we have all experienced, when you suddenly notice something new or odd on [...]
By Charles Sercombe Mayor Karen Majewski better rest up and get ready to spend some time on the road. Besides holding down a fulltime job and attending numerous meetings as mayor, Majewski now has another job: She has just been named president of the Michigan Municipal League. The MML is a powerful non-partisan organization in [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe The City Council met on Sept. 27, with Councilmembers Kazi Miah and Shahab Ahmed absent. The meeting ran for over two-and-a-half hours, which also included a closed meeting. Sit back and crack open a [...]
“Hall of Shame” presents some of the worst cases of blight in the city in the hopes that someone from City Hall will take note. Well, one can only hope. By Charles Sercombe What is it about elderly women in this town being plagued by blight? Maybe we’re exaggerating, but we have heard about another [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the scoop and the highlights – as well as the lowlights – of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe The City Council met on Sept. 13, with only Councilmember Kazi Miah absent. The meeting ran for over two-and-a-half hours, which also included a [...]
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